NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The official schedule has not yet been released, but Hutchinson USD 308 Superintendent Dr. Dawn Johnson is looking forward to some community meetings to continue the process forward of figuring out the future for USD 308 facilities.
"Our goal is just to have some open community meetings," Johnson said. "Invite the public to see about two and a half years of work, of discussing our facilities in USD 308 and what the vision is for about a 50-person community committee that we put together probably 14, 15 months ago now, that have been talking through our facilities, touring our buildings and having a vision for the future. I think we're always adapting and changing to today's environment."
The hope is to put them in several neighborhoods, so all those interested can attend.
"At least three of those meetings will take place in some elementary schools," Johnson said. "We'll do these meetings in April, so we'll have these dates out here very soon. We'll have a meeting at Lincoln-McCandless to cover Lincoln neighborhood, McCandless neighborhood and probably the Graber neighborhood. I think we'll have one at Morgan Elementary to cover the Wiley and Morgan neighborhood and then we'll have one at Allen Elementary to cover the Faris and Allen neighborhoods. Maybe we host one at the library. We have some people on our committee that have volunteered to host. I know there's a couple groups that would like to have some Spanish-speaking meetings and then, a couple of ours that work at some organizations here in town have said, we would like to host one at one of our locations."
The thought is potentially to repurpose some buildings to allow for a single pre-K center and to restructure so that there is a single middle school building for 6th, 7th and 8th grades, but the specifics on where and how are still to be worked out.
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